Last year I wrote an article on the possibility that all fantastic stories about UFOs actually turn out to be true. Since then, a lot has happened, with a drip-drop of stories in the media about the U.S. government having multiple extra-terrestrial craft in its possession, and actively trying to backward engineer them. Then there is the amazing news report from Las Vegas about a man calling 911 to report two “not human” beings in his backyard.
The most recent contribution is a compelling commentary about how financial regulators should approach the question of UFO disclosure: how do we avoid disruptive market instability?
Even more interesting is the fact that these stories are being taken seriously by Congress:
The House of Representatives plans to investigate claims that the US government is harboring UFOs after a whistleblower former intelligence official said the US has possession of “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles.
The case falls under the jurisdiction of the House Oversight Committee, which in other investigations has proven to be both serious and persistent.
It is exciting to watch all this unfold, especially for those of us who as kids checked out every UFO book we could find at the local library and passionately watched the original Star Trek series, Space 1999, and other science-fiction shows on TV. But this trickle of information is even more exciting in view of what potential it brings for humanity.
Let us have a look at what lies ahead, and what it means for humanity at large, and for us as Christians and conservatives.
One day, a government official, most likely the president of the United States, will announce that the stories are indeed true: his government has for decades been in possession of alien vessels and alien technology. That day will mark the beginning of the galactic era for humanity.
The inevitable follow-up question from reporters will be: ‘Have you been in contact with whoever built those craft?’ Only one answer will open the door for a peaceful galactic era: ‘Yes, we know they want peaceful contact with us—they have no malicious intentions.’
There is no other alternative for peaceful disclosure. If the president says ‘no, we have not yet made contact with them,’ it would leave not just America, but all of humanity exposed to the greatest uncertainty in the history of our species. What if they are hostile? What if they are here to conquer? What if…? The field would be open to doomsday merchants who would seize the discourse. Panic would set in, and in the worst case, all of humanity would slide into chaos. Anarchy would threaten civilized life as we know it.
That is the worst-case scenario, and nobody wants it. Therefore, disclosure will only happen when the U.S. president can truthfully tell us that their contacts with the aliens are diplomatic in nature and have progressed to a point where we can reliably take the next step. This means making extra-terrestrial contacts a reality.
Disclosure will probably not happen during President Biden’s tenure. It will have to be someone whose personality, stature, and reputation will convey exactly the trust and faith in government that we will need in order to leap into the galactic era.
If the right person makes the disclosure announcement, we as humanity can open a literally endless roster of opportunities for ourselves. Some of those opportunities are technological in nature: we will learn of new means of transportation, of engineered products we can barely dream about today. We may learn new ways to practice medicine and cure diseases we still consider untreatable.
But perhaps more importantly, we will learn of other civilized societies, on other planets, that have reached higher stages of cultural, social, and economic evolution than we have. Suddenly, we will have incredible opportunities to study those societies, to learn of their history, their forms of government, their laws, and their economic systems. We may find that we still have a lot to learn about how to achieve peace, prosperity, and freedom for all.
As Christians, we have much to look forward to ‘out there.’ For starters, the disclosure of life on other planets is in no way a challenge to our faith—quite the contrary. If God has seeded other planets with life, it only confirms that He really is the almighty Creator of the universe.
In fact, I would go as far as to say that if Earth were the only planet with life on it, I would ask why God left the rest of the universe dead and barren. The God I know loves life and wants us to love life as much as He does. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that He has stretched His creation of life out across the entire universe. By discovering more of His creation, we come closer to understanding His greatness.
As conservatives, we can expect an equal level of confirmation of our beliefs. We will find that advanced civilizations on other planets have built their nations on principles that may not be identical to ours, but are close enough to be familiar to us.
How do we know this? Let us look at our own history. It has taught us that societies built on totalitarianism and tyranny never evolve. They stagnate, and they do so because the tyrant and his ruling class have achieved what they wanted: the power to do whatever they want. Tyranny is by its own very nature a static form of society. In order to secure the perpetuity of his reign, the tyrant has to kill the organic force of creativity that makes a free society grow, thrive, and prosper. If people are allowed to think for themselves and put new ideas to work; if they can test them on the free markets of speech, capital, and products; then they can also prove to have better solutions to social and economic problems than the tyrant has.
Therefore, totalitarianism leads to stagnation, and stagnation leads to decline. Wherever conservative principles are put to work, civilization thrives. The potential for the future is endless.
For all these reasons, we should look forward to the day when we are told that ‘we are not alone.’ That is not to say, though, that our transition into the galactic era will be smooth and free of problems. There will be plenty of that, of course, but those problems will also present us—humanity—with opportunities to rise and grow.
One of the most important components of our transition into the galactic era will be the opportunities we will have to learn about the aliens. Obviously, we want to know what they look like (and as this author has explained, they are not too different from us), but we also want to get to know their language, culture, faith, and how their societies are structured.
The more we can find out for ourselves, the easier it will be for mankind to make the galactic leap. Therefore, on the day that the president makes his speech, there will already be measures in place that will allow all of us to find answers to every question we have. Those measures will have to be based on the principle of freedom; if we are all supposed to go to a government website and read some talking points that some 25-year-old communications major put up there, the outcome will be the same as if the president said: “no, we have no contact yet.”
In other words, we can expect a disclosure process to open up a wealth of information sources where we can inform ourselves about what lies ahead. This information will allow us to define our place in the new galactic era—both in terms of reassuring ourselves that our life as we know it will not be in jeopardy, and that we will be able to explore the endless opportunities that lie ahead.
Who knows, maybe some space aliens will come to a public library near you and answer questions from the public?
It may seem overwhelming, to say the least, to start finding out who the space aliens are, and how we can establish some sort of ongoing contact with them. For one, how do we even talk to them?
We have to assume that if the American government has had ongoing contact with them, the aliens have had envoys here—visiting or permanently stationed on Earth—that have learned our language. This is no stranger than the U.S. embassy in Japan having staff members who are proficient in Japanese. If they have learned other Earthly languages, even better, but with at least one language in common, we can start building more long-term relations with the aliens.
But what do we have to offer that could possibly interest aliens, who are presumably centuries, even millennia ahead of us in technology and societal evolution?
This question is a little bit like asking what reasons there would be for North Korea to incorporate itself into the global economy. North Korea has resources to offer the world, in exchange for resources that we have to offer them. They have a large workforce, they have natural resources, and they have agricultural land.
In the same way, Earth offers a wealth of economic resources that we can use to produce goods and services that would be in demand on other planets. To take an example that may seem banal in the context: people who live on a distant planet somewhere also need furniture. They need clothes, cutlery, and things to decorate their homes with. By galactic comparison, we are likely to have a relatively unskilled labor force, but just like North Korea will be a cheap place to manufacture when they open up to the rest of the world, Earth will offer plenty of cheap manufacturing opportunities for the galactic economy.
But wait—this still does not make sense. We can trade with North Korea because we know what currency they have. How do we even know if the aliens use currency?
Trust me: they do. Every economy needs a currency. It may not be coins and paper bills like we have; it may all be electronic. But there are currencies in space, just as here on Earth. We need currencies to be able to trade anything for anything, so to speak; without currencies, we have to resort to barter, and that is about as inefficient and primitive as an economy can get.
In other words, once we figure out what currency the aliens use, and what laws and regulations they have for interplanetary trade, we can set up businesses that will allow us to export products to them, and to import things from them. With all the contacts established and routines in place, this trade will not be much more complicated than the trade we have between countries here on Earth.
Other economic relations will follow. Imagine being a college student in America, Hungary, or Japan, and being offered a ‘study abroad’ year at a college on a distant planet. Imagine the classes in mathematics, history, or languages that you could take.
With economic and cultural relations up and running, it will only take a few short years before our interplanetary relations are ‘normalized.’ At that point, we will probably be surprised at how little this galactic era has changed our everyday lives: we still go to the same supermarket to get groceries; we still live in the same house and go to the same church. Some new technologies will work their way into our lives, perhaps in the form of vastly better cell phones and some sort of flying cars. But the galactic era will not be the end of the world as we know it.
If anything, it will be a far more exciting version of the world as we know it.
Looking Forward to the Galactic Era
Last year I wrote an article on the possibility that all fantastic stories about UFOs actually turn out to be true. Since then, a lot has happened, with a drip-drop of stories in the media about the U.S. government having multiple extra-terrestrial craft in its possession, and actively trying to backward engineer them. Then there is the amazing news report from Las Vegas about a man calling 911 to report two “not human” beings in his backyard.
The most recent contribution is a compelling commentary about how financial regulators should approach the question of UFO disclosure: how do we avoid disruptive market instability?
Even more interesting is the fact that these stories are being taken seriously by Congress:
The case falls under the jurisdiction of the House Oversight Committee, which in other investigations has proven to be both serious and persistent.
It is exciting to watch all this unfold, especially for those of us who as kids checked out every UFO book we could find at the local library and passionately watched the original Star Trek series, Space 1999, and other science-fiction shows on TV. But this trickle of information is even more exciting in view of what potential it brings for humanity.
Let us have a look at what lies ahead, and what it means for humanity at large, and for us as Christians and conservatives.
One day, a government official, most likely the president of the United States, will announce that the stories are indeed true: his government has for decades been in possession of alien vessels and alien technology. That day will mark the beginning of the galactic era for humanity.
The inevitable follow-up question from reporters will be: ‘Have you been in contact with whoever built those craft?’ Only one answer will open the door for a peaceful galactic era: ‘Yes, we know they want peaceful contact with us—they have no malicious intentions.’
There is no other alternative for peaceful disclosure. If the president says ‘no, we have not yet made contact with them,’ it would leave not just America, but all of humanity exposed to the greatest uncertainty in the history of our species. What if they are hostile? What if they are here to conquer? What if…? The field would be open to doomsday merchants who would seize the discourse. Panic would set in, and in the worst case, all of humanity would slide into chaos. Anarchy would threaten civilized life as we know it.
That is the worst-case scenario, and nobody wants it. Therefore, disclosure will only happen when the U.S. president can truthfully tell us that their contacts with the aliens are diplomatic in nature and have progressed to a point where we can reliably take the next step. This means making extra-terrestrial contacts a reality.
Disclosure will probably not happen during President Biden’s tenure. It will have to be someone whose personality, stature, and reputation will convey exactly the trust and faith in government that we will need in order to leap into the galactic era.
If the right person makes the disclosure announcement, we as humanity can open a literally endless roster of opportunities for ourselves. Some of those opportunities are technological in nature: we will learn of new means of transportation, of engineered products we can barely dream about today. We may learn new ways to practice medicine and cure diseases we still consider untreatable.
But perhaps more importantly, we will learn of other civilized societies, on other planets, that have reached higher stages of cultural, social, and economic evolution than we have. Suddenly, we will have incredible opportunities to study those societies, to learn of their history, their forms of government, their laws, and their economic systems. We may find that we still have a lot to learn about how to achieve peace, prosperity, and freedom for all.
As Christians, we have much to look forward to ‘out there.’ For starters, the disclosure of life on other planets is in no way a challenge to our faith—quite the contrary. If God has seeded other planets with life, it only confirms that He really is the almighty Creator of the universe.
In fact, I would go as far as to say that if Earth were the only planet with life on it, I would ask why God left the rest of the universe dead and barren. The God I know loves life and wants us to love life as much as He does. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that He has stretched His creation of life out across the entire universe. By discovering more of His creation, we come closer to understanding His greatness.
As conservatives, we can expect an equal level of confirmation of our beliefs. We will find that advanced civilizations on other planets have built their nations on principles that may not be identical to ours, but are close enough to be familiar to us.
How do we know this? Let us look at our own history. It has taught us that societies built on totalitarianism and tyranny never evolve. They stagnate, and they do so because the tyrant and his ruling class have achieved what they wanted: the power to do whatever they want. Tyranny is by its own very nature a static form of society. In order to secure the perpetuity of his reign, the tyrant has to kill the organic force of creativity that makes a free society grow, thrive, and prosper. If people are allowed to think for themselves and put new ideas to work; if they can test them on the free markets of speech, capital, and products; then they can also prove to have better solutions to social and economic problems than the tyrant has.
Therefore, totalitarianism leads to stagnation, and stagnation leads to decline. Wherever conservative principles are put to work, civilization thrives. The potential for the future is endless.
For all these reasons, we should look forward to the day when we are told that ‘we are not alone.’ That is not to say, though, that our transition into the galactic era will be smooth and free of problems. There will be plenty of that, of course, but those problems will also present us—humanity—with opportunities to rise and grow.
One of the most important components of our transition into the galactic era will be the opportunities we will have to learn about the aliens. Obviously, we want to know what they look like (and as this author has explained, they are not too different from us), but we also want to get to know their language, culture, faith, and how their societies are structured.
The more we can find out for ourselves, the easier it will be for mankind to make the galactic leap. Therefore, on the day that the president makes his speech, there will already be measures in place that will allow all of us to find answers to every question we have. Those measures will have to be based on the principle of freedom; if we are all supposed to go to a government website and read some talking points that some 25-year-old communications major put up there, the outcome will be the same as if the president said: “no, we have no contact yet.”
In other words, we can expect a disclosure process to open up a wealth of information sources where we can inform ourselves about what lies ahead. This information will allow us to define our place in the new galactic era—both in terms of reassuring ourselves that our life as we know it will not be in jeopardy, and that we will be able to explore the endless opportunities that lie ahead.
Who knows, maybe some space aliens will come to a public library near you and answer questions from the public?
It may seem overwhelming, to say the least, to start finding out who the space aliens are, and how we can establish some sort of ongoing contact with them. For one, how do we even talk to them?
We have to assume that if the American government has had ongoing contact with them, the aliens have had envoys here—visiting or permanently stationed on Earth—that have learned our language. This is no stranger than the U.S. embassy in Japan having staff members who are proficient in Japanese. If they have learned other Earthly languages, even better, but with at least one language in common, we can start building more long-term relations with the aliens.
But what do we have to offer that could possibly interest aliens, who are presumably centuries, even millennia ahead of us in technology and societal evolution?
This question is a little bit like asking what reasons there would be for North Korea to incorporate itself into the global economy. North Korea has resources to offer the world, in exchange for resources that we have to offer them. They have a large workforce, they have natural resources, and they have agricultural land.
In the same way, Earth offers a wealth of economic resources that we can use to produce goods and services that would be in demand on other planets. To take an example that may seem banal in the context: people who live on a distant planet somewhere also need furniture. They need clothes, cutlery, and things to decorate their homes with. By galactic comparison, we are likely to have a relatively unskilled labor force, but just like North Korea will be a cheap place to manufacture when they open up to the rest of the world, Earth will offer plenty of cheap manufacturing opportunities for the galactic economy.
But wait—this still does not make sense. We can trade with North Korea because we know what currency they have. How do we even know if the aliens use currency?
Trust me: they do. Every economy needs a currency. It may not be coins and paper bills like we have; it may all be electronic. But there are currencies in space, just as here on Earth. We need currencies to be able to trade anything for anything, so to speak; without currencies, we have to resort to barter, and that is about as inefficient and primitive as an economy can get.
In other words, once we figure out what currency the aliens use, and what laws and regulations they have for interplanetary trade, we can set up businesses that will allow us to export products to them, and to import things from them. With all the contacts established and routines in place, this trade will not be much more complicated than the trade we have between countries here on Earth.
Other economic relations will follow. Imagine being a college student in America, Hungary, or Japan, and being offered a ‘study abroad’ year at a college on a distant planet. Imagine the classes in mathematics, history, or languages that you could take.
With economic and cultural relations up and running, it will only take a few short years before our interplanetary relations are ‘normalized.’ At that point, we will probably be surprised at how little this galactic era has changed our everyday lives: we still go to the same supermarket to get groceries; we still live in the same house and go to the same church. Some new technologies will work their way into our lives, perhaps in the form of vastly better cell phones and some sort of flying cars. But the galactic era will not be the end of the world as we know it.
If anything, it will be a far more exciting version of the world as we know it.
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